Home Health Care News June 24, 2020
Home health care is beginning to manage the COVID-19 crisis at a more sustainable pace, and early signs have suggested that the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) may not have been the boogeyman that some providers suspected it was.
But the rosy outlook of the first six months of PDGM may be premature. Federal relief funding could have created some artificial safety nets for providers that would have been more adversely affected by the new payment model, which was implemented on Jan. 1.
“PDGM has kind of been pushed to the backburner, and appropriately so. Nonetheless, implementation still took place,” Mark Kulik, managing director of The Braff Group, told Home Health Care News. “And that new system requires home health leadership...
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